{"id":30179,"date":"2025-01-10T16:15:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/fleeing-the-la-fires-alone-on-a-wheelchair-i-had-to-take-my-chances\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:15:30","slug":"fleeing-the-la-fires-alone-on-a-wheelchair-i-had-to-take-my-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/fleeing-the-la-fires-alone-on-a-wheelchair-i-had-to-take-my-chances\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleeing the LA fires alone on a wheelchair: \u2018I had to take my chances\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An evacuation order when the Eaton fire threatened Galen Buckwalter\u2019s Sierra Madre home triggered a nightmare odyssey through chaotic streets<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/10\/la-fires-live-updates-california-los-angeles-wildfires-fire-map-latest-news\">California wildfires \u2013 live<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The timing of the evacuation order could not have been worse.<\/p>\n<p>Galen Buckwalter and his wife, Deborah, were alerted around 9.30pm on Tuesday evening that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/09\/los-angeles-wildfires-spread-hills-hollywood-boulevard\">rapidly spreading Eaton fire<\/a> near Pasadena, California, was endangering their home and they should immediately flee to safety.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/10\/fleeing-california-wildfires-los-angeles\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An evacuation order when the Eaton fire threatened Galen Buckwalter\u2019s Sierra Madre home triggered a nightmare odyssey through chaotic streets California wildfires \u2013 live The timing of the evacuation order could not have been worse. Galen Buckwalter and his wife, Deborah, were alerted around 9.30pm on Tuesday evening that the rapidly spreading Eaton fire near &#8230; <a title=\"Fleeing the LA fires alone on a wheelchair: \u2018I had to take my chances\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/fleeing-the-la-fires-alone-on-a-wheelchair-i-had-to-take-my-chances\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fleeing the LA fires alone on a wheelchair: \u2018I had to take my chances\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}